Lindelani Ngwenya
Lindelani was born in KwaMaphumulo and presently lives and works in uMkhumbane (Cato Manor). In his series of sculptures entitled Memory, Meditation and Metamorphosis (plates 316-318), the artist has woven three sculptures of female bodies in wire. The intricacy and the intense labour that this process demands has strong resonance with the titles and conveys a loaded statement on the political situation in South Africa at present. Here, the very process of weaving itself becomes a meditative one where things intertwine, merge and unite. It is also a performative process, where dance and music, represented by the strings of a musical instrument, merge to resemble a ritual. Read More…
